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Politics: 25 May 2005, Wednesday.
There is evidence that the 1981 attempted murder of Pope John Paul II was planned by Russia’s military intelligence GRU, reports say.
Dimitar Ganchev from the Bulgarian section of the Vaticana broadcast claims this is the conclusion of Paolo Guzzanti, the head of a special Italian parliamentary committee of inquiry, who has been investigating the attack for years.
The Senator has found out that a number of enemy acts against Western Europe, including the attempted murder of Pope John Paul II, has been organized not by the Bulgarian secrete services or the Soviet KGB but Kremlin’s military intelligence GRU, Ganchev told New Europe Radio.
GRU organized the attack but recruited someone lese to carry it out, Oleg Gordievski, former GRU officer, currently living in London, told New Europe radio.
He specified that his assumptions are not backed by evidence.
Italian media has claimed that Bulgarian classified documents contain evidence that the attack was planned by the Soviet KGB with participation of the secret service of the former East Germany - the Stasi - and its Bulgarian counterpart.
GRU military intelligence however stood higher in the hierarchy of the Soviet Union state.
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There is evidence that the 1981 attempted murder of Pope John Paul II was planned by Russia’s military intelligence GRU, reports say.
Dimitar Ganchev from the Bulgarian section of the Vaticana broadcast claims this is the conclusion of Paolo Guzzanti, the head of a special Italian parliamentary committee of inquiry, who has been investigating the attack for years.
The Senator has found out that a number of enemy acts against Western Europe, including the attempted murder of Pope John Paul II, has been organized not by the Bulgarian secrete services or the Soviet KGB but Kremlin’s military intelligence GRU, Ganchev told New Europe Radio.
GRU organized the attack but recruited someone lese to carry it out, Oleg Gordievski, former GRU officer, currently living in London, told New Europe radio.
He specified that his assumptions are not backed by evidence.
Italian media has claimed that Bulgarian classified documents contain evidence that the attack was planned by the Soviet KGB with participation of the secret service of the former East Germany - the Stasi - and its Bulgarian counterpart.
GRU military intelligence however stood higher in the hierarchy of the Soviet Union state.
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